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A geological anomaly along the The East African Rift System has long stumped scientists—until now. A New Discovery May Help Predict When Africa Will Ultimately Split in Two Skip to main content
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
A massive rift in Ethiopia separated continental plates by 400 feet and is part of a rift network that may flood enough to create a new ocean in 2 million years.
Researchers' new insight into the splitting process of the East Africa Rift systems show where an ocean will likely be formed if the continent's split continues.
Map of the Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa.
The triple junction is at , inside the Afar Triangle (at center shadedFault lines are in black, and red triangles show historically active volcanoes. The Afar triple junction (also called the Afro-Arabian rift system) is located along a divergent plate boundary dividing the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian plates.
The African plate, also known ... but came together during the Pan-African orogeny and stayed together when Gondwana split up. ... in the past, two sections of the ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -South Africa and Morocco are at loggerheads over the presidency of the United Nations' top human rights body ahead of a vote on Wednesday, with the former saying Rabat has ...